Understand the complex inner wind zone of AGB star envelopes: the velocity, density and thermal structures of the complex envelopes, and their chemistry.

The Galactic Center

Investigating the immediate vicinity of the galactic black hole as well as the properties of surrounding young star clusters.

Low-z extragalactic science with METIS

Understand the physical origin of the correlation between black hole and galactic spheroid mass from size, geometry and dynamics of the circum-nuclear region and the interplay between star formation and nuclear feedback.

High-z extragalactic science with METIS

Study the evolution and merger history of luminous infrared galaxies at intermediate redshifts via the morphology and velocity field of their redshifted H-α emission .